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Dan Lyons

Ex-NBA Owner Eyeing Bid to Keep Sun in Connecticut As Boston Group Seeks to Move Team

As a Boston-based financial group seeks to buy the Sun, one in Hartford hopes to swoop in and prevent the franchise's relocation. | David Butler II-Imagn Images

The sun may not be setting on WNBA basketball in the state of Connecticut just yet.

It was reported Saturday that PagsGroup, a family investment group founded by Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca, is set to buy the Sun from the Mohegan Tribe for what would be a league record $325 million. The valuation would be an impressive jump for the league, well above the $250 million that the league will collect for the upcoming expansion franchises in Cleveland, Detroit and Philadelphia.

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